[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Large size penalty from -isohybrid-mbr and -partition_offset 16?

George Danchev danchev at spnet.net
Wed Jun 15 14:55:00 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:34:18 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> there is really a bug with the padding and the cylinder size alignment.
> It must be a regression after fixing another regression.
> xorriso-1.0.4 aligns properly. But that seems to be due to a bug
> that prevented padding at all, and was fixed in 1.0.6.
> 
> For proper cylinder alignment one currently has to use option -no-pad.
> In this case one should urge users to avoid CD write mode TAO or
> to use padsize=300k with their cdrecord compatible burn program.
> (It is only CD TAO that needs padding due to the Linux Read-Ahead Bug.
>  BD, DVD or CD SAO are not prone to this.)
> 
> I will now try to fix this flaw. Thanks for testing and reporting.

blah, normal bug filed [1], to document the flaw, as this might affect some burn 
use-cases:

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630607

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